The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

Fanny Davenport's jewels, valued at $751;
| 600, was arrested on the 4th at Kansas City,
and all the valuables were recovered
IN the Cumberland river an overflow on
the 4th deluged the lowlands adjacent to
| Nashville, Tenn, and many families had
| been driven from their homes
OK the 4th William Raab, life convict
| in the Joliet (Ill) prison, was given his
| liberty for saving the life of Deputy War
den Mcdonald when assaulted by Frank
| Rande.
EVANGELIST MOODY on the 5th received
many congratulations IN Chicago, the occs.-
sion being his fiftieth birthday.
! THE death of Rev. Thomas Goodman,
| who preached the funeral sermon of the
| father Of Abraham Lincoln, occurred on the
9Th at Charleston, H.. at the age of seven
| ty-nine years.
| JOHN ERATER a farmer living near Mount
| Eaton, O., lost two children on the 5th
| from eating diseased meat, and three more
members Of the family were dangerously
| i'll.
| AT Troy and Enterprise, Ind, two thirds
of the business houses and dwellings were
under water on the 9th, and the people had
| abandoned Enterprise entirely. 1t was es-
| timated that 400, 900 pens of corn had been
oWNPO away Va 06hAQ6O0 Wy GnO
| water.
THROUGHOUT Central Illinois and Indiana
| two shocks of earthquake were expert
enced on the morning of the 6th and one
at st. Louis. The people of Owatonna,
Mimi, were startled by thunder and light
ming lasting an hour, with the mercury be-
low zero.
| A FIRE destroyed the Daily Times Office
and contents at Dubuque, Ia, early on the
morning of the 9th Loss, $4,000.
FIVE inches of snow fell on the 5th in
| San Francisco
THE other day Frank Lee, Newark (O.)
capitalist, committed suicide with a pen
knife IN New York hotel.
! On the 9th the Ohio river was still rising,
and the greatest anxiety was felt along it's
course, especially in the larger cities. At
some points it had steadily overfowed and
caused great damage.
| THE Sunday law was on the 9th rigidly
enforced at Jeffersonville, Ind. Publishers
were forbidden to circulate newspapers;
| druggists, confectioners, butchers and
| restaurants to open their shops, milkmen
to deliver milk, and railroads to carry on
| operations in their yards.
| AT Fort Benton and other points in Mon
| tana, great coal-famine prevailed on the
| 9TH. Coal was sixty dollars ton. The
snow was two feet on the level, and cattle
were suffering terribly
GEORGE M. LAwToN, probate Judge of
Van Buren, County, Mich, for eight years,
fell dead in the railway depot at Kalama-
zoo early en- the morning of the 18th.
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that for forty
eight hours heavy rains had fallen in Chi
cago and the surrounding country for for
ty miles, and traffic on the Santa Fe line
along the Desplaines river had been sus-
| pended. The flood was causing heavy
| losses to farmers and others.
THE Indiana State Treasury was reported
empty on the 7th and all payments would
be suspended unless temporary relief was
made Immediately.
The Texas Senate has passed bill to
| punish strikers who interfere with lawful
employment of other persons by a fine of
$500 and Imprisonment for six months.
| UP to the 18th Mary Baker, residing in
White County, Ind, had taken neither food
nor drink for one hundred and five days.
In a quarrel on the 18th near De Kalb,
Tex, three of a family named White and
| Colonel John Rosser were killed